to be particular about forks and stuff?

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its just that I only like certain forks - ones with long tines, I hate stubby forks.

I also like my morning coffee in my Cath Kidston flowery mug, herbal tea in my other Cath K mug and all mugs have to be thin, don't like fat mugs. Hot chocolate is best in the short mug with the lighthouse on the side and I just can't bear soup in a cup at all.

I eat kiwis with the silver spoon I have had all my life, yogurt with a long-handled one and stir my tea with one of the old spoons.

So, is it just me?

No - cannot, simply cannot eat off anything wooden, just the thought makes me gag.

I like my boiled eggs with tiny egg spoons, not teaspoons thank you.
I like my soup with a soup spoon, not a dessert spoon.
I like them all separated in the cutlery drawer not lumped in together.

I realise this is about spoons, not forks!

Have you red Private Eye, "me and my spoons"
saying that I am particular about using the most regular fork in the drawer, none of the "randoms" for me thank you.
And yes, wood, gross in eating implements.

Oh, I just realised - I only use our starter cutlery (not the main course cutlery). I definitely have size issues .

EEEEK no read, not red

DH gets quite cross when he offers to make me a tea and I say, yes, may I have a cup and saucer please, he can't see why it would only taste good in a cup at certain times of day and suggest I drink only half the mug, it is not the same! Fine china mug in the morning (thick = bleurgh) but no mugs in the evening for me.
I also struggle with the knives and forks in the work restaurant, the edges are not very smooth and they are really unpleasant in the hand and in the mouth, it's very off-putting.
So yes, weird but YANBU and YAN alone

YANBU
I have to eat cereal with a teaspoon!

And cannot stand cutlery with plastic handles

I can't say cutlery particularly interests me, as long as it is clean and non-plastic. Though I do have a favoured spoon for my porridge in the mornings - it is half way in size between teaspoon and dessertspoon and is just right somehow. I don't really mind if someone else has used it though.

Mugs though - that I am very picky about. To the point I have my own special coffee mug that nobody else is allowed to touch use. When I first moved in with DH he borrowed it and then took it off in his car with him and I was at home frantically searching for it, not knowing what he'd done. Luckily for him, he returned it intact and hasn't dared use it since

I also like the Cath K mugs and have a dozen of them - not because of what they look like, but because they are big, very nice to drink from and perfect for tea.

kiwi with a gratefruit sppon like a bioled egg

I have a special porridge spoon

Can't bear mugs with thick lips

I like cutlery that has a decent weight to the handles and get a but upset if they're all dirty, but I have to use a rubbishy plastic handled knife for butter because the nicer ones feel wrong.

I have favourite mugs, usually tall, at home, but at work my tea tastes best out of the smaller mugs and I have to sort through the cupboard to find the right ones. I've always been funny with mugs, I had my own as a child and when I went to university I used to keep my mugs in my room because I couldn't bear anyone else using them. I didn't mind them using anything else, just not mugs!

Oh, and I stropped like mad at DH because he used my favourite most perfect wooden spoon to stir a bucket full of bleach and Lego. None of the others feel right.

I'm a weirdo.

YANBU, I little little forks and little spoons (food lasts longer!).

I have my mug for coffee, my little teapot/cup set for tea and I like hot chocolate in the big white mugs.

Weird but harmless, I can manage without all these things, but they are my preference.

Another vote for the Flowery Shit mugs here. Tea doesn't taste the same in anything else.

Coffee out of a chunkier mug I can get my hands around . Tea out of bone china. Hot chocolate out of my small Cath Kidston mug. Forks with long tines and knives without serrations. Crappy stainless steel fork for spearing potatoes. Big wooden spoon when making soup or jam. Tea out of a teapot - free range darling.
And I think that is quite enough of my foibles

Sometimes you find a place that feels like home. Even though you've never been there before, everything feels familiar and comforting. This thread is that place

I may disagree whith some pps (there can never be a valid excuse for a plastic spoon or fat rimmed mug) but I love them for being here!!

I can't list all my preferences, I know MN servers wouldn't cope but DH sets aside a whole day if we're getting anything for the kitchen (my record for knife choosing was 6 weeks) and I have a special section in the drawer for my cutlery...oh and a plate just for my roast potatoes (I hate gravy touching them and my food touching). It's a terrible thing to admit but I have actually decided not to eat when DH was at work and I found my fork had a bent tine. I have issues - but I'm fine with them

I'm kind of over it now. But a few years back I had particular tea spoons for using with particular mugs, or the coffee just didn't taste right.

I live with my parents and their cutlery drawer is horrendous... full of mismatched bits from various sets they've had over the years, so you have to dig through a load of shit forks to get to a nice one. I hate the newest ones because they are kind of sharp round the edges - the handle hurts my hand if I grip it - and most of the older ones have rubbish little tines that are too close together, so there are only about three others that I will actually use. Tea must be in a thin china mug, coffee in a thick ceramic one, and hot chocolate in a big one with room at the top for cream!

Tea in my poundlang chunky flower mug that my dd chose,
Coffee in my jack russel mug,
Hot choc in my big st pauli mug,
Toast, sandwiches, snacks etc off my cow print side plate only,
Cereals, desert, soup out of my cow print bowl onley,
Main meals off my white plate only,
Will only eat with matching cutlery
That's all I can think of for now

I have a favourite mug for coffee, tea is usually in a cup- no saucer because OH bought fancy crockery but refused to pay for saucers separate to the cups- food is served on plain white plates, cutlery is solid but not fancy and no, no, no to soup in a cup. Even as a kid that was just wrong

I don't like cutlery that has handles that are narrow and have a circular cross action. They are such hard work to hold. I like CK mugs- they are solid and a lovely comfortable shape. I have lots.

Does anyone have these or similar Cath Kidston dotty mugs? I'd love them of they're relatively small and fine.

I have trained DH so we have weekday coffee mugs, weekend coffee mugs (both these for first thing in the morning), then weekend mid-morning coffee mugs, plus my primary tea mug and my stand-by tea mug. (He doesn't drink tea.)

Poor MIL came to stay and was so bemused by the intricacies of the mug cupboard that she went out and bought her own.

Spoon-wise I like nice EPNS ones for eating and cooking, love the colour they go as they start to tarnish slightly. DD eats her kiwis from a small silver coffee spoon. DH is a prole and uses anything but in his favour is the only one that actually cleans the silverware.

Tea in my creme egg mug. Hot choc in my super mum mug. Water in tall thin glass not a tumbler. Not so fussed about cutlery but dh has his own slightly fancier than the rest fork.

I have a favourite fork for eating risotto or pasta with- it's wider than our everyday forks so you can scoop up more with it.

I try & use all my mugs on rotation as I feel sorry for the ones that work their way to the back of the cupboard & never get used.